A Paradox?

I am proudly a Zanzibari… honestly speaking, I have never felt at ease under Tanzania flag…. Sometimes, I feel even more trapped between these two facts, double trapped: there is an official need for me to be identified as a Tanzanian. For example, I carry a Tanzanian passport and when it comes to a question of international gathering, I should fly Tanzania flag. Yet there is another fact that I have never accepted: ‘the occupation’ as for me this Union is perceived as a symbol of occupation.